And There Were More ..........................

Brown’s family was just one of thirteen African-American families recruited in Topeka by the NAACP. In 1950, organization spent time enlisting plaintiffs nationwide to prepare to approach the Supreme Court on the “separate but equal” ruling that had permitted segregation in American schools for half a century.

So, to start off the experiment, in the fall of 1950, a group of families went to enroll their children in their neighborhood white schools, with the expectation that they would be rejected.  And the result is history……

Although history scripted that Linda Brown and her family single handedly change  the mind of the Supreme Court and turned the nation around, there were a whole cast of supporting characters accompanying her on her journey

                                          ("African American Students")